"solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means ""Ashes of the Dead""; the color associated with Tuesday is pink. In the folk rhyme ""Monday's Child"", ""Tuesday's child is full of grace"". In India, Tuesday is also popular for worshipping Hanuman and people fast during Tuesday. Tuesday is associated with the planet Mars and shares that planet's symbol, ♂. As Mars rules over Aries and Scorpio, these signs are also associated with Tuesday. Tuesday is the usual day for elections in the United States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after"
"Monday's Child ""Monday's Child"" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with all nursery rhymes, there are many versions. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526. Common modern versions include: This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's ""Traditions of Devonshire"" (Volume II, pp. 287–288) in 1838 and was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century. The tradition of fortune"
"Buckingham quoted the first two lines in the song ""Eyes Of The World"", on Fleetwood Mac's ""Mirage"" album. Vermillion Lies released ""Wednesday's Child"" off their 2008 album ""What's In The Box?"". The song features a slightly modified version of the entire poem and is sung from the perspective of a woeful child born on a Wednesday. Monday's Child Tuesday's Child Wednesday's Child Thursday's Child Friday's Child Saturday's Child Sunday's Child Monday's Child ""Monday's Child"" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future based on the day"
"Thursday's Child (David Bowie song) ""Thursday's Child"" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album ""Hours"" in 1999. As with most of the other songs from ""Hours"" it was originally written for the computer game """" from 1999. This was the first single lifted from ""Hours"" and preceded the album by two weeks. In a performance for VH1 Storytellers, Bowie revealed that the title of the song was prompted by the memory of the autobiography of actress Eartha Kitt. The book, also called Thursday's Child, used to be a favourite of his when he was"
"Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however, especially in the United States, it is the third day of the week. The English name is derived from Old English ""Tiwesdæg"" and Middle English ""Tewesday,"" meaning ""Tīw's Day"", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio germanica, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin"
"Wednesday Addams Wednesday Addams is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams in his comic strip ""The Addams Family"". The character has also appeared in television and film, in both the live action and animated formats. In Addams' cartoons, which first appeared in ""The New Yorker"", Wednesday and other members of the family had no names. When the characters were adapted to the 1964 television series, Charles Addams gave her the name ""Wednesday"", based on the well-known nursery rhyme line, ""Wednesday's child is full of woe."" The idea for the name was supplied by the actress and poet"
"appeared in a multi-part fictional story in a chapter appearing in ""Harper's Weekly"" on September 17, 1887, in which ""Friday's child is full of woe"", perhaps reflecting traditional superstitions associated with bad luck on Friday – as many Christians associated Friday with the Crucifixion. In addition to Wednesday's and Friday's children's role reversal, the fates of Thursday's and Saturday's children were also exchanged and Sunday's child is ""happy and wise"" instead of ""blithe and good"". The lyrics were set by John Rutter for choir a cappella in the collection ""Five Childhood Lyrics"", first performed in 1973. In 1982, songwriter Lindsey"
"Saturday's Child ""Saturday's Child"" is a popular song, written by David Gates and performed by The Monkees. The song is an electric guitar–based rock song. The song is now widely regarded as one of their best album tracks, with AMG critic Matthew Greenwald saying that it has a ""proto-heavy metal guitar riff"" and it is ""one of the more interesting curios of the early Monkees catalog"". The song still gets regular play on Oldies radio stations and has also been covered by several artists. The song is also featured on several ""greatest hits"" albums by The Monkees. The song was"
"Wednesday's Child (novel) Wednesday's Child is the sixth novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series. It was published in 1992, and reprinted a number of times since. It was the first of Robinson's novels to be shortlisted for the Edgar Award. When a well-dressed couple, claiming to be social workers, appear at Brenda Scupham's door, saying they must take her seven-year-old daughter, Gemma, into care after allegations of abuse, Brenda is confused and intimidated enough to hand the child over. But when the couple, Mr. Brown and Miss Peterson, fail to bring Gemma home,"
"Friday's Child (Star Trek: The Original Series) ""Friday's Child"" is the eleventh episode of the of the American science fiction television series """". Written by D.C. Fontana and directed by Joseph Pevney it was first broadcast December 1, 1967. In the episode, the crew of the ""Enterprise"" become entangled in a planet's tribal power struggle. Adding to their difficulty is the presence of the Klingons, and a woman (Julie Newmar) who does not want her unborn child. The episode's title is derived from a traditional English poem, known as ""Monday's Child"". The reference is to a line in the poem:"
"Thursday's Child (Streatfeild novel) Thursday's Child is a children's historical novel by Noel Streatfeild, set in turn-of-the-century England. It was first published in Great Britain by William Collins, Sons in 1970 and was followed by a sequel, ""Far to Go"", in 1976. Its most recent release was a Collins paperback in 1999. The novel was adapted for television as a six-part series broadcast 1972–1973. The title of the novel and its sequel are taken from the traditional rhyme ""Monday's Child"". The book is about a foundling, Margaret Thursday, who was named after the day she was discovered. As she tells"
"but this has changed to Fridays globally in 2015. In Australia, events occurring on Tuesdays include: Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however, especially in the United States, it is the third day of the week. The English name is derived from Old English ""Tiwesdæg"" and Middle English ""Tewesday,"" meaning ""Tīw's Day"", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with"
"tain, eddero, he counted and got to bumfit, which was fifteen, and looked for the extra man and saw two. Tain-o-bumfit?"" In Garth Nix's novel ""Grim Tuesday"", Grim Tuesday splits his Dawn, Noon, and Dusk servants into seven parts named Yan, Tan, Tethera, Methera, Pits, Sethera and Azer. The nursery rhyme ""Hickory Dickory Dock""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s title is a form of the ""8 9 10"" of the series. Joan Aiken's children's book ""The Cuckoo Tree"" features ten ""Gentlemen"" named Yan, Tan, Tethera, Methera, Pip, Sethera, Wineberry, Wagtail, Tarrydiddle and Den. The children's album ""Fiddle Up a Tune"" by Eric Nagler features a"
"on earth because people will probably kill us.' That was a little less jolly than 'Thursday’s Child.'"" This version also includes the full length ""Thursday's Child"" video in QuickTime format. A cassette version was also released with the three tracks from the UK CD version 1 on both sides of the tape. The music video was directed by Walter Stern, and shows Bowie in a motel room, looking in a mirror and reminiscing on his life and what could have been. Thursday's Child (David Bowie song) ""Thursday's Child"" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the"
"children's rhyme counts out the Sundays of Lent as ""Tid, Mid, Misere; Carlin, Palm, Pace-Egg Day"", referring to the second Sunday when ""Te Deum"" was sung; the third when ""Mi Deus"" was sung; the Sunday when the ""Misere Mei"" was chanted; Carlin Sunday; Palm Sunday; and Pace Eggs on Easter Sunday. Other names given are pigeon peas (not to be confused with the tropical pigeon pea ""Cajanus cajan""), black badgers, and brown badgers. The availability of black peas is seasonal; they are typically available from the end of October and throughout November. They are available from local stores and also"
"reciting the days of the week, Solomon Grundy was 'Married on Wednesday.' In ""Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"", the disagreeable nature of the weather is attributed to it being ""Winds-Day"" (a play on ""Wednesday""). In Richard Brautigan's ""In Watermelon Sugar"" Wednesday is the day when the sun shines grey. Wednesday Friday Addams is a member of the fictional family The Addams Family. Her name is derived from the idea that Wednesday's child is full of woe. Additionally, Wednesday sometimes appears as a character's name in literary works. These include ""Thursday's fictions"" by Richard James Allen and Neil Gaiman's"
"Five Childhood Lyrics Five Childhood Lyrics is a choral composition by John Rutter, who set five texts, poems and nursery rhymes, for four vocal parts (SATB with some divisi) a cappella. Rutter composed the work for the London Concord Singers who first performed them in 1973. The five movements are: The first song is based on ""Monday's Child"", a fortune-telling song and nursery rhyme. The text of the second song is ""The Owl and the Pussycat"", a nonsense-poem by Edward Lear published in 1871. The third song is based on a poem, """", by Robert Louis Stevenson. The text for"
"comes from ""chéad"", ""first"" and ""aoine"", ""fasting"" which means ""first day of fasting"". In American culture many Catholic and Protestant churches schedule study or prayer meetings on Wednesday nights. The sports calendar in many American public schools reflects this, reserving Mondays and Thursdays for girls' games and Tuesdays and Fridays for boys' games while generally avoiding events on Wednesday evening. In Hindu mythology, Budha is the god of Mercury (planet), mid-week Wednesday, and of Merchants and merchandise. According to the Thai solar calendar, the color associated with Wednesday is green. In the folk rhyme ""Wednesday's child is full of woe"","
"Shrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday (also known in Commonwealth countries and Ireland as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day) is the day in February or March immediately preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes. In others, especially those where it is called Mardi Gras or some translation thereof, this is a carnival day, and also the last day of ""fat eating"" or ""gorging"" before the fasting period of Lent. This moveable feast is determined by Easter. The expression ""Shrove Tuesday"" comes from the word ""shrive"", meaning ""absolve"". Shrove Tuesday is observed by"
"Thursday's Child (Hartnett novel) Thursday's Child is young adult novel by the Australian writer Sonya Hartnett, published in 2000 by Penguin Books. Set during the 1930s Great Depression in Australia, it features a young woman Harper Flute and her family, who live in poverty. It won the annual Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. Following its publication by Walker Books in the U.K., Hartnett won the 2002 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Harper Flute is an adolescent girl living with her family in Australia during the depression. Harper Flute's"
"his mother is singing in the kitchen. The Man Child ""The Man Child"" is a 1965 short story by James Baldwin, taken from the short story collection, ""Going to Meet the Man"". In a rural setting, young Eric lives on a large farm with his parents, who are friends with Jamie, a farmer who has lost his farm to Eric's father. Eric's parents are celebrating with Jamie his birthday. It is Jamie's thirty-fourth birthday and he is at Eric's parents' place to celebrate. Eric's father upbraids him for being alone, with no wife or children, only a dog and his"
"that it is unsuitable for ""small people"". Rhyme Stew Rhyme Stew is a collection of poems for children by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake. In a sense it's a more adult version of ""Revolting Rhymes"". The poems either parody well known fairy tales (""Dick Whittington and His Cat, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Emperor's New Clothes, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin"") nursery rhymes (As I was going to St Ives, Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary) or are little stories thought up by Dahl himself. Most of the stories contain slight sexual references. Due to slightly"
"Town Hall steps to the children gathered outside. Attribution: Hocktide Hocktide, Hock tide or Hoke Day is a very old term used to denote the Monday and Tuesday in the second week after Easter. It was an English mediaeval festival; both the Tuesday and the preceding Monday were the Hock-days. Together with Whitsuntide and the twelve days of Yuletide, the week following Easter marked the only vacations of the husbandman's year, during slack times in the cycle of the year when the villein ceased work on his lord's demesne, and most likely on his own land as well. Early folk"
"address) for Mangala, the god of war, and for Mars, the red planet. In the Nahuatl language, Tuesday is () meaning ""day of Huitzilopochtli"". In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The Octoechos contains hymns on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Tuesdays throughout the year. At the end of Divine Services on Tuesday, the dismissal begins with the words: ""May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable and glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John…"" In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day"
"Five Little Ducks Five Little Ducks is a nursery rhyme and counting-out game. The rhyme also has an associated tune and finger play. Like all folk songs, the exact wording varies. A common variant is: <poem> Five little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, ""quack quack quack quack,"" And only four little ducks came back. Four little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills and far away. Mother duck said, ""quack quack quack quack,"" And only three little ducks came back. Three little ducks went swimming one day, Over the hills"
"Thursday's Child (1943 film) Thursday's Child is a 1943 British, black-and-white, comedy, drama, directed by Rodney Ackland and starring Ronald Shiner as Joe, Stewart Granger and Wilfrid Lawson. It was produced by John Argyle and Associated British Picture Corporation. A young girl, Fennis Wilson (Sally Ann Howes), is cast in a film, launching her career to stardom, the very thing her older sister desperately wants. Stardom is the furthest thing from 12-year-old Fennis' goals in life, as she's more introspective and intellectual. When the hit film falls in her lap, it creates tension in the family that threatens to tear"
"collection of Christmas carols included some version of words and music together, most of them ending with the refrain ""On Christmas Day in the morning"". One of the most popular of these is ""What Child Is This?"", written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix. In Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (written c. 1597; first published in 1602), the character Mistress Ford refers twice to ""the tune of 'Greensleeves'"", and Falstaff later exclaims: These allusions indicate the song was already well known at that time. <score lang=""lilypond""> \new Staff { </score> Greensleeves ""Greensleeves"" is a traditional English folk song and"
"What Child Is This? ""What Child Is This?"" is a Christmas carol whose lyrics were written by William Chatterton Dix, in 1865. At the time of composing the carol, Dix worked as an insurance company manager and had been struck by a severe illness. While recovering, he underwent a spiritual renewal that led him to write several hymns, including lyrics to this carol that was subsequently set to the tune of ""Greensleeves"", a traditional English folk song. Although it was written in Great Britain, the carol is more popular in the United States than in its country of origin today."
"Little Bunny Foo Foo ""Little Rabbit Foo Foo"" is a children's poem, involving a rabbit harassing a population of field mice. The rabbit is scolded and eventually punished by a fairy. Like many traditional folk songs, there are multiple versions with differing variations. The poem is sung to the tune of ""Down by the Station"" (1948), and melodically similar to ""Itsy Bitsy Spider"" and the popular French-Canadian children's song ""Alouette"" (1879). The rhyme is usually sung by an older person to a younger child, using a repetitive tune that reinforces the meter, accompanied by hand gestures. It is often passed"
"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
"clue: This hint allows the ear to translate the final line as ""a kid'll eat ivy, too; wouldn't you?"" Milton Drake, one of the writers, said the song had been based on an English nursery rhyme. According to this story, Drake's four-year-old daughter came home singing, ""Cowzy tweet and sowzy tweet and liddle sharksy doisters."" (Cows eat wheat and sows eat wheat and little sharks eat oysters.) Drake joined Hoffman and Livingston to come up with a tune for the new version of the rhyme, but for a year no one was willing to publish a ""silly song."" Finally, Hoffman"
"Thursday's Child (1983 film) Thursday's Child is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film starring Rob Lowe, Gena Rowlands and Don Murray, directed by David Lowell Rich and based on the book by Victoria Poole. Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still"
"Wednesday's Child (film) Wednesday's Child is a 1934 American drama film directed by John S. Robertson and written by Willis Goldbeck. The film stars Karen Morley, Edward Arnold, Frankie Thomas, Robert Shayne and Frank Conroy. The film was released on October 26, 1934, by RKO Pictures. Ten-year-old Bobby (Frankie Thomas) and a group of friends see Bobby's mother (Karen Morley) kissing a man not her husband. Despite serious concerns about Bobby, a divorce ensues and Bobby, although thoroughly disenchanted with his mother, is sent away with her where month after month despite all her efforts he grows more depressed, dreaming"